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by spellboots 13y ago
I use both javascript and coffeescript extensively and regularly, and I just don't understand how this ever causes real problems to anyone - unless you're writing 5000 line long spaghetti code coffeescript files with ambiguous var
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by spellboots 13y ago
A related article from the author of the less-rails rubygem: http://metaskills.net/2012/02/27/too-less-should-you-be-usin...
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by spellboots 13y ago
I don't think the artifact approach is unambiguously better. Sure, "consistent deployments on two different Linux systems" is important but you can achieve that with rubygems along with the extra flexibility that distributing
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by spellboots 13y ago
You are not supposed to be able to hit the url in your browser. You are supposed to use it as a gem source in a Gemfile or with the gem command line tool. There is also http://gems.gzruby.org/ if you happen to be behind the
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by spellboots 13y ago
Rubygems has at least one public mirror: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17150536/437888 There are also solutions such as https://github.com/pusewicz/rubygems-proxy allowing you to cache / pr
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by spellboots 13y ago
It would be completely out of character for him to pull out of the speech - far better for him to go along and mock them. I for one would love to see that.
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by spellboots 13y ago
On iOS this isn't necessarily true under certain constraints. They can make it impossible given the device is not jailbroken. Sometimes there are versions of iOS that are un-jailbreakable. If you are not Apple, it could very well be im
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by spellboots 13y ago
Is this not the entire point of Foursquare?
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by spellboots 13y ago
It used to be technically correct. Today, it is technically incorrect, because society today acknowledges that women are full, living, breathing human beings and may in fact be referred to as such in polite conversation.
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by spellboots 13y ago
I use both for different purposes. It should be noted that Digital Ocean machines seem a lot slower. As a real world example, rake assets:precompile on my linode takes about a minute, whereas on a similarly specced digital ocean box it take
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by spellboots 13y ago
As a programmer who feels I should spend at least some of my life in silicon valley, this is the primary reason I don't. American employment law is frankly barbarian.
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by spellboots 13y ago
Look at all the single first name usernames on the frontpage. Lots of early adopters right there.
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by spellboots 13y ago
Obligatory http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... I spent many years doing PHP. I am very glad that those years are behind me. Even if you allow for it being easy to setup - whic
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by spellboots 13y ago
Not true. Ruby is great for a lot of stuff, but a very poor choice for e.g. scientific computing (scipy/numpy are a far better choice than the very immature sciruby), and plenty of other use cases where there are other "general pu
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by spellboots 13y ago
IE9 is still awful unfortunately. IE10 is the first IE that doesn't suck.
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by spellboots 13y ago
How ridiculous. This post sounds like a pair of children fighting. And whilst your client seems very annoying, calling them terrorists for opting to exercise their perfectly valid rights to (a) engage you in legal proceedings and (b) write
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by spellboots 13y ago
Please use Persona, it's this idea but much more thoroughly thought out and tested. Here is a great video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJff23UdNAI If you have not heard of Persona, or have heard of it but
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by spellboots 13y ago
Whilst indirectly, you can still purchase pretty much anything in BTC quickly and easily: http://all4btc.com/ http://www.gyft.com/
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by spellboots 13y ago
This explains succinctly why almost no computers were sold in the 1990s.
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by spellboots 13y ago
I disagree, I think that opening an issue on github is a good way to start a discussion about a feature. Many projects accept feature requests this way and if anyone did the same for one of my projects, this would be the way I would prefer
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by spellboots 13y ago
You can 3d print springs on even the cheapest hobbyist 3d printers these days [1]. Some 3d printed springs exceed the performance of traditional designs of the same weight [2]. Battery chemistry is indeed a different kettle of fish however.
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by spellboots 13y ago
Apache rewrite rules, which isn't that surprising if you've seen as many abominations of config as I have: http://olsner.se/2008/01/21/an-excursion-in-mod_rewrite/
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by spellboots 13y ago
Perhaps you haven't seen it work, I have seen it work many times, and like I said, it is about tradeoffs. You trade increased development time for higher quality software. I think it's quite bizarre to be arguing that TDD is not a
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by spellboots 13y ago
> But to be truly agile (and I'm not talking about some written methodology here — I mean agile as in nimble) you need to work quickly, try things out and make mistakes. Writing your tests first is a encumbrance. Perhaps it makes se
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by spellboots 13y ago
It's not true to say that TDD isn't agile. They are orthoganal - you can be agile and do TDD and you can do waterfall development and not do TDD. The fact that you need to change tests to change the software is the whole point - i
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by spellboots 13y ago
It seems like there are a sea of absolute assertions with few facts backing them up - people seem to love either saying that TDD is better or TDD is worse, and it seems that the only data ever really offered on the subject is anecdotal opin
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by spellboots 13y ago
In fact, using a document fragment is actually faster at least in some cases: http://jsperf.com/svg-fragment-test
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by spellboots 13y ago
Here is an introduction. They are not SVG specific but you can build SVG elements in a document fragment, which is a lot faster than appending to the DOM, then append the fragment to the DOM all in one go. See http://ejohn.org&#x
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by spellboots 13y ago
You can use document fragments for this and get a similar performance boost without resorting to string concatenation.
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by spellboots 13y ago
Just in case anyone doesn't realize that this is a terrible idea, this is a terrible idea. It's certainly a reasonable position that self signed certs should not have such a scary warning, but if you install the lolroot root certi

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